Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] domain: Fix unknown flags diagnosis in virDomainGetXMLDesc

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On 2/19/19 6:00 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 2/19/19 2:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>>
>>> BTW: For the two callers that pass all 3 maybe it'd be good to change
>>> those to pass VIR_DOMAIN_XML_COMMON_FLAGS. Currently:
>>>
>>>   * qemuMigrationCookieXMLFormat
>>>   * qemuDomainSaveImageDefineXML
>>
>> Makes sense, although I might split it as a separate patch.
>>
> 
> Actually, no, it doesn't make sense. If VIR_DOMAIN_XML_COMMON_FLAGS
> gains a new flag, we don't want these callers to start outputting new
> information merely because they used the convenience macro. (That is,
> the macro is good for virCheckFlags(), to allow a driver to
> automatically support a new public flag by deferring to the common
> domain_conf implementation's support of the new flag; but it is not good
> for internal uses where we are generating specific output without
> regards to flags passed in through the public API).
> 

oh right, good thought.

John


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